A Separate Peace In the opening passage of A Separate Peace‚ John Knowles utilizes personifications‚ similes‚ and metaphors in order to create a gloomy and contemplative mood. At the beginning of the book‚ Gene Forrester is visiting his old high school‚ The Devon School‚ and the school ironically looks newer and more improved. As he explores this new school‚ a mood of gloom and contemplation is created. A personification such as‚ “Now here it was after all‚ preserved by some considerate hand with
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The story‚ “Deep Waters” tells us how the writer overcame his fear of water and learned swimming with sheer determination and will power. He had developed a terror of water since childhood. When he was three or four years old the writer had gone to California with his father. One day on the beach‚ the waves knocked the child down and swept over him. The child was terrified but the father who knew there was no harm laughed. The experience bred a permanent fear of water in the child’s sub-conscious
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Chapter 1 Use these Lord of the Flies important quotes from chapter 1 to enhance your understanding of the novel. Quote: Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along...Then the creature stepped from the mirage on to clear sand‚ and they saw that the darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing (19). Analysis: The arrival of Jack Merridew and his militant choir is described as the arrival of a beast or creature‚ foreshadowing Jack’s transformation from despotic
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Throughout the short story ’The Large Ant’ Howard Fast’s character Mr. Morgan displays the natural fear humans have against the unknown; by killing it. As a species through history‚ we have grasped an ideal that the development of superior weapons is supposedly a demonstration of one’s technological advancements; though it may also be seen as a compensation for the social fears of that society. As a race the unknown presents us with a great fear. Thus when the idea of an eternal vacuum like space
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The Fear of the Unknown In the alchemist by Paulo Coelho‚ Santiago’s greatest obstacle is overcoming his fear of the unknown. As the boy goes to the ticket booth to buy a ticket to Africa‚ he comes to the realization‚ “If he sold just one of his sheep‚ he’d have enough to get to the other shore of the strait. The idea frightened him.” (26). Santiago is fearful because he doesn’t know what will happen if he leaves. He knows his sheep and the lands of Andalusia‚ but does not know what will occur
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Ray Penman Oct 3‚ 2010 The Savage Beast— Man’s Inherent Primitivism as Shown in Lord of the Flies A running theme in Lord of the Flies is that man is savage at heart‚ always ultimately reverting back to an evil and primitive nature. The cycle of man’s rise to power‚ or righteousness‚ and his inevitable fall from grace is an important point that book proves again and again‚ often comparing man with characters from the Bible to give a more vivid picture of his descent. Lord of the Flies symbolizes
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Why Do People Enjoy Getting Scared? Everyone knows what it is like to feel fear inside them. We feel a pounding heartbeat‚ faster breathing‚ and butterflies in our stomach. In reality there are two types of fear. One is real fear‚ the fear we are not so comfortable with‚ like being diagnosed with a deadly disease‚ losing a loved one‚ or getting in a deadly accident. The other fear is a fear that a certain number of us get an enjoyment out of it‚ like watching a horror movie‚ riding a roller
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FEAR AND SHAME In this essay‚ I am going to carefully explore the themes issues of fear and shame in act one of ’The Crucible’‚ and how they have an influence on the characters behaviour. Act one is where we are introduced to the majority of the characters‚ and we are given a close insight into each of their different personalities. The first character in the play is Reverend Paris‚ and straight away we can see that he is very self conscious‚ that he values himself quite highly‚ and that he
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Michael Crichton’s essay “Lets Stop Scaring Ourselves” makes readers think twice at any time they hear of an issue that may affect them. Crichton reasons that people will often scare themselves whenever they hear of an issue that will upset their lives. Crichton starts his essay by declaring that when the scientists were predicting the world to experience global cooling rather than global warming. Then follows with how the world was to suppose to have ended. In the duration of his essay he pronounces
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It seems that all fears are based on illusion and future thinking. The future is unpredictable‚ and few have the courage to go explore the unpredictable. In the story “On the Rainy River”‚ Tim O’Brien‚ which is the author of the story as well‚ receives his draft notice to fight in the Vietnam War. The war seems wrong to him‚ and the fear of the uncertainty of its outcomes determine O’Brien to resist making a decision about whether to go to war or flee. Indeed‚ the interplay between fear and foresight
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